Plant-fender



(No Model.)

D. S. MUSE. PLANT FENDER.

No. 540,214.- Patented May 28, 1895.

ing of the nut d UNITED STATES PATENT Orrroin.

DAVID S. MUSE, OFWOODDURY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN R. HOPKINS, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

PLANT-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,214, dated May 28, 189 5.

Application filed April 20, 1894.

To aZZ whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, DAVID S. MUSE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a *esident of Woodbury, in the county of Merirether and State of Georgia, have made cer- -.in new and useful Improvements in Plantenders; and I do hereby declare the follow- !lg to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to tillage and cultivation devices having particular reference to that class of such devices as are secured to a plow, and carrying a blade near and alongside the foot thereof, in such a manner as to ward off from the small plants, under cultivation, the dirt thrown up by the plow, the invention consisting of the device hereinafter set up in the claims, and, substantially, as described in the specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device, showing same secured in placeon the side of a plow. Fig. 2 is'a plan of aportion of the plow-beam with the device attached thereto. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, enlarged, of the adjusting-head; and Fig. 4 is a section centrally and vertically thereof. Fig. 5 is a view of the rear edge of the clamping device. Fig. 6 is a view of one of the hook-bolts securing the cross-bar to the beam.

In the figures like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

A is the beam, B the handles, and O the standard or foot, of a plow, all of which may be of any desired construction. The crossbar D is secured to the forward end of the beam, resting on the top side thereof by means of bolts (1 hooked on the lower end by means of a right-angled bend, and the backward turn of the extreme end thereof, which forms a point which is caused to enter the wood on the under side of the beam, by the tighten- A series of holes d are made in the cross-bar, being so situated that the bolts may be placedin them, and hold the bar D in place, across the top of the beam,

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either at a right-angle thereto or extending backwardly at an acute angle. These holes may be of any arrangement desired or found most efficacious to the end desired. In the free end of the cross-bar D is a hole for the bolt 6, by means of" which the swivel-block E is bolted to the under side of said bar, suitable means being provided for causing a sufficiently rigid engagement of said block with said bar, said means being typified in the drawings by correspondingly dentated bearing surfaces. The block E consists ofa horizontal plate, and a downwardly projecting lug e Said ing is provided with a hole for the bolt e which pivots the bar f by passing though one of the holes f therein. Extending from the inner side of the lug on the block E is a lug e which has its top side inclined from the middle each way as shown and against these inclines rests the under side of the barf. In order that the said bar f may be set atdifferent angles to the beam A vertically, and the blade F be held at various dis tances from the ground or be so adjusted that the plow-share may be run deeper or shallower and the blade F still rest upon the ground, a long notch f having one of its sides at an angle of (say) fifteen degrees from the edge of the bar, and several holes f are made in made in said bar. It will be seen that, by moving the bar edgewise with the long side of the notch in contact with the lug e until another hole f comes into juxtaposition with the bolt (2, the angle of the said bar relative to the block E will be changed. In order to increase the frictional engagement of the lug on the block E and the barf, aplate e is added which is clamped securely to the side of the saidbar by the passage through it of the bolt c. This plate e is provided with a notch to fit over the lug e butit is ob vious that the construction in this particular might be reversed, that is, the lug 6 might project from the inner face of the plate a, and rest against anotch in the lower end of thelug c".

This device is operated in its adjustments as follows: The blade F carried on the barf may be moved so as to have it parallel to the beam, or at an angle thereto, by looseningthe screw e, and turning. the swivel-block E in the desired direction. The said blade may be raised or lowered so as to run upon orthe desired distance above the ground by changing the bar f so that the desired one of the holes 5 f is on the bolt 6, thus causing a different portion of the long side of the notch j to bear on the lug e A fore-and-aft adjustment of the blade relatively to the foot 0 may be made by moving the bar D on the beam. The distance of said blade from said foot sidewise may be made by changing the angle of the bar D tothe beam, the bolts (1 being set in the upper one of the holes d whereby said bolts may be at all times near to the sides of the beam. By leaving the bolt 6' loose, the fender will rise and fall and thus follow the undulations of the ground if it is desired, its motign downwardly being limited by the lug e It is obvious that this device may be used on either side of the beam, by reversing the necessary parts, or a fender may be placed on both sides, all the parts being duplicated.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a plant-fender, a cross-bar adapted to be secured to the beam, and bolts adapted to secure same in place an angle-block adapted to be pivoted on the free end of the cross-bar, and havinga downwardly projectinglug, said lug having a proj eotion on its inner face, near its lower end, a bolt extending through said lug above said projection, a bar pivoted on said bolt, its lower end resting on said projection,and a fender-plate carried on the free end of the said bar.

2. In a plant-fender, a cross-bar adapted to be secured to the beam, and bolts adapted to secure same in place, an angle-block adapted to be pivoted on the free end of the cross-bar, and having a downwardly projecting lug, said lug having a projection on its inner face near its lower end, a bolt extending through said lug above said projection, a bar having its lower edge near its front end inclined,pivoted on said bolt, its lower edge resting with its inclined portion on said projection, and a fender-plate carried on the free end of the said bar.

DAVID S. MUSE.

Witnesses:

J. T. WILLIAMS, J. W. WILLIAMS.

U0fr6Ct|0H m Letters Patent No. 540,214.

Affidavit having Patent No. 540,214

been filed showing that the name of the patentee in Letters granted May 28, 1895, for an improvement in Plant-Fenders,

Signed, countersigned, and sealed thls 12th day of November A D 1895 [SEAL] JNO. M. REYNOLDS,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Oountersigned S. T. FISHER Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

